Yeasayer's Anand Wilder Working on Musical

With assists from members of MGMT, Dirty Projectors, Man Man, more

It's still very much in the planning stages right now, but Yeasayer guitarist Anand Wilderis working on a musical, which is slated to eventually become both a stage show and an album. The piece is called Break Line, and Wilder wrote it with the pianist Max Kardon. According to a rep for Yeasayer, "the story revolves around an interracial love affair in a coal mining town around the turn of the century."

Wilder has already roped in a very serious list of contributors to record stuff for the show, including his fellow Yeasayer members and folks from MGMT, Dirty Projectors, Man Man, Chairlift, Dragons of Zynth, and Suckers. However, he won't be done with the recording until he completes sessions with a gospel choir. From the looks of things, this is an awfully ambitious project and one that could seriously rule.

Wilder doesn't yet have a label or a release date for Break Line, and the play itself is still in early pre-production stages. But we do have some photos from the recording sessions, so check them out above and below.

Yeasayer, meanwhile, is hard at work on the follow-up to All Hour Cymbals, their hugely promising debut. They're blogging about the sessions here, though mostly it's just photos of snow right now. And as previously reported, the band also guests on Two Suns , the brilliant forthcoming album from gothy Kate Bush disciple Bat for Lashes.